Totally Butt Naked, as Naked as the day it was born...

I read 'as naked as the day I was born', was preparing myself for the worst wondering if I should have clicked on the topc...

No **** mate, I guess you can never have enough Nicolais . I do really like the machined N in the headtube, gives it some extra class. Ion ST it was right? Not going for a Karve like finish, and keeping it more raw like on the pics I take it?

I knew you had something up yer sleeve. That's gonna be one hell of a ride there Whafe. Congrats!

Wish our trips were going to overlap again this year but I'll be leaving from Whistler on Friday the 8th. If you get tired of the Crankworks crowds, we'll be a few hours to the East shredding at SilverStar.

Weak at the knees.....

Fark me silly, that ST reads like it's race bred

The chop will disappear before your eyes and under your arse! Run some extra special deep sag, and enjoy the annihilation of terrain. She looks like she will take some muscle to finesse but you will be well rewarded.

The chop will disappear before your eyes and under your arse! Run some extra special deep sag, and enjoy the annihilation of terrain. She looks like she will take some muscle to finesse but you will be well rewarded.

No Boss shock

I for sure, I love sag...... Bulk sag is indeed needed, going to be different trying the Vivid shock, read good things, so will for sure be different to the CCDB, but am looking forward to a DH sled with oodles of soak up them bumps stuff....

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I for sure, I love sag...... Bulk sag is indeed needed, going to be different trying the Vivid shock, read good things, so will for sure be different to the CCDB, but am looking forward to a DH sled with oodles of soak up them bumps stuff....

There is a review of the ION ST in the latest Australian Mountain Bike. They tested it with Boss suspension and came away drooling. They had fun on the bike and gave it mad props. AMB is shaping up to be a good magazine under the younger leadership of more gnarly and capable riders (XC to DH). For example they reviewed the new Canondale Moto in the same issue. The liked the changes but spotted that it was not laterally stiff. I like that honesty and never tried to cover it up.

There is a review of the ION ST in the latest Australian Mountain Bike. They tested it with Boss suspension and came away drooling. They had fun on the bike and gave it mad props. AMB is shaping up to be a good magazine under the younger leadership of more gnarly and capable riders (XC to DH). For example they reviewed the new Canondale Moto in the same issue. The liked the changes but spotted that it was not laterally stiff. I like that honesty and never tried to cover it up.

Interesting, may have to start buying that magazine again, it was crap for a while, cant be anything worse than the joke that is NZ Mountain Biking.... Dare I say it, it is worse than MBA....

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yeah ha, components are rolling in... I arrive into LA on Tuesday US time, so will get busy on it and get this puppy built up...

All the components have arrived from Deity.... I have to say, have dealt with Deity before, it was a great company to deal with then, a year later, it is better again... It is so so simple, no BS, no steamy brown stuff talk. They do what they say they will do and have proven this to me.... So thank you Deity....

Chad at the Barn is building up my rear wheel, and sending other bits n bobs, so we are good to go.....

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Chad's the man! He built my Hadley/Flows for my El Rey I got from him. I'm not a skinny person are these frame pretty stiff? I hate a flexy frame. Short story on all this is I love my El Rey. But miss my 06 RFX and looking for a semi big bike to do things the El Rey is not really designed to do. At this point I'm just looking but this frame has caught my eye. If not the Helius FR it most likely with be the El Terremoto.

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Chad's the man! He built my Hadley/Flows for my El Rey I got from him. I'm not a skinny person are these frame pretty stiff? I hate a flexy frame. Short story on all this is I love my El Rey. But miss my 06 RFX and looking for a semi big bike to do things the El Rey is not really designed to do. At this point I'm just looking but this frame has caught my eye. If not the Helius FR it most likely with be the El Terremoto.

Yep agree HUGELY, Chad is the man.....

The Helius FR is indeed stiff, in fact "stiffer than a honeymooners chopper". The El Terre is a great frame and bike too. Cant go wrong with Nicolai, Ventana, Knolly or Turner..... The engineering perfection and dead perfect allignment is something else on a Nicolai, something that is important to me.....

Feel free to ask away with questions...

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